Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (9 October 1888-15 March 1938) was a prolific author on revolutionary theory under the Soviet Union. Editor of Pravda, he agreed with Joseph Stalin's New Economic Policy but later opposed his Collectivisation ideas and was executed in the Great Purge.

Biography
Bukharin was born in Moscow in the Province of Muscovy in the Russian Empire, and due to his role in the 1905 Revolution, he was exiled to Arkhangelsk and later met Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in Hanover. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 he moved back to Moscow and his high credentials earned him the title of editor of Pravda, a Bolshevik propaganda magazine.

He became a far-right communist and an ally of Joseph Stalin, supporting his New Economic Policy and from 1926 to 1929 he had the post of General Secretary of the Comitern Executive Committee, but he was expelled from Politburo (parliament) because he opposed Stalin's policy of collectivisation. He was one of the many Soviet Union politicians executed during the Great Purge, shot for treasonous letters and telephone calls.